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OECD Conference Centre, Paris
9-10 June 2009
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The theme of this year’s OECD Global Forum on Trade is Climate Change. It is an obvious choice. The threat to the world’s ecosystems and resource-dependent industries, notably agriculture, forestry and fishing, posed by climate change is serious. The need for the international community to negotiate a post-2012 regime for addressing emissions of gases that contribute to climate change, is urgent.
Yet the need to provide opportunities for countries to develop through engagement with the world economy is also of critical importance. That means, among other priorities, continuing to reduce barriers to trade among nations.
The 2009 OECD Global Forum on Trade, which is being organized this year with support from the World Bank and the Governments of Sweden and Switzerland, will bring together trade and climate-change policy makers from OECD countries and a number of emerging economies to discuss how to make trade and climate-change policies mutually supportive. Representatives from academia, civil society and key multilateral organisations will also contribute to the discussion. Specifically, the Global Forum on Trade this year will examine several important issues at the interface between trade and climate-change policies: the importance of removing barriers to trade in climate-friendly technologies; the links between trade liberalization, the demand for transport, and emissions of greenhouse gases; carbon accounting and labeling; and subsidies to fossil fuels.
The Global Forum on Trade is the OECD’s main instrument for broad-based dialogue between OECD members and non-member economies on trade policy issues. The Global Forums represent one part of the OECD Framework for Global Relations, and are specifically designed to address issues of global importance that cannot be solved by OECD Members alone. Since 2001 the Global Forum on Trade has been used to examine topics of mutual concern to both sets of countries and to broaden the discussion of national policy developments to include important non-member trading economies.
Draft Agenda (pdf)
Session I: Setting the scene
This session will review the extent of the climate challenge, and provide an introduction to the numerous linkages between trade and climate change.
The Need for International Action on Climate Change keynote address by Christian de Perthuis, Université Paris-Dauphine, Mission Climat of Caisse des Dépôts
How Can Trade Policy Support Climate Policy? keynote address by Doaa Abdel Motaal, WTO
Session II: How can trade policy support climate-change objectives?
This session will explore the links between trade policy and climate policy, and discuss the ways that the former can support the latter.
Improving Access to Climate Change Mitigation Technologies: Towards a Global Green New Deal by Dean Cooper, UNEP
How Trade in Renewable Energy Technologies Takes Place: Barriers and Opportunities to Increasing Deployment in Developing Countries by Jim Hight, Project Manager, Environmental Business International
Reducing Import Duties on Environmentally Friendly Goods and Services by Akihiko Tamura, Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan
From CCMT Importer to CCMT Exporter: The Case of China by LIU Chunyong, Ministry of Commerce, P.R. China
Session III: Trade liberalization, transport and climate change
This session will explore the links between trade liberalization, the demand for transport, and emissions of greenhouse gases.
How Further Trade Liberalization Would Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport by David Hummels, NBER, Purdue University
The Shipping Sector’s Efforts to Address GHG Emissions From International Shipping by Masahiro Samitsu, NYK Line
Aviation internationale et lutte contre le changement climatique par Pierre Albano, VP Environment, Air France-KLM
Review of Voluntary Standards and Schemes that Estimate and Label the GHG Emissions "Embedded" in Consumer Goods and Services by Simon Bolwig, DTU Climate Centre at Risø
Carbon labelling and the market access of developing countries by Gareth Edwards-Jones, Bangor University, UK
The Need for Global Climate Standards by Anders Ahnlid, Director-General for Trade, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
Session IV: Issues in quantification
This session will focus on data and analysis gaps, and show how better statistics and insights from quantitative analysis can improve our understanding of the trade-and-climate change nexus.
CO2 Emissions Embodied in International Trade in Goods: Consumption Based v. Production Based Emissions by Norihiko Yamano, OECD
Accounting for Carbon: Methodological Issues in Life-cycle Assessment by Rainer Zah, EMPA, Life Cycle Assessment & Modelling
Limitations of International Statistics on Climate-relevant Trade by Izaak Wind
Climate Change, Trade and Production of Energy Supply Goods: The Need for Levelling the Playing Field by Veena Jha
Session V: Carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns
This session will consider the issues that fall under the broad heading of “carbon leakage and competitiveness”.
Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage: The Case of Japan and International Comparisons by Pr. Jusen Asuka, Tohoku University, Japan
Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies by Stéphanie Jamet, Economics Department, OECD
Competitiveness & Carbon Leakage – Focus on Heavy Industry by Richard Baron, Climate Change Unit, IEA
Session VI: Energy subsidies, trade and climate change
This session will explore the extent of subsidies supporting the production and use of fossil fuels, the benefits of subsidy reform, including from a trade perspective, and multilateral options for encouraging reform.
What we know and what we don’t know about the nature and scope of subsidies favoring fossil fuels by Peter Wooders, Senior Economist, Climate Change, Energy and Trade
The Benefits of Eliminating Consumer Subsidies to Fossil Fuels: Results of the OECD-IEA Modelling Exercise by Jean-Marc Burniaux, Environment Directorate, OECD
Energy pricing and subsidy Reforms in Nigeria by Adeola Adenikinju, Professor of Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Session VII: Looking forward
This session will consider what lessons can be drawn from the previous two days and how they can be taken forward.
Background documents are simply that: selected documents (or links to articles) undertaken by participants in the Forum that may serve as useful background to discussion. Not all documents will be discussed at the Forum, and not all presentations will be available in advance of the Forum. All views expressed in the documents are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OECD or of its Member countries.
How Further Trade Liberalization Would Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport by David Hummels, NBER, Purdue University
The Measurement of CO2 Embodiments in International Trade: Evidence from the Harmonised Input-Output and Bilateral Trade Database (STI Working Paper 2009/3) by Satoshi Nakano, Asako Okamura, Norihisa Sakurai, Masayuki Suzuki, Yoshiaki Tojo and Norihiko Yamano
Pascal Lamy hits out at food miles
Carbon Labels Present Taxing Problem, by Alexander Kasterine
Carbon Labelling and Low-income Country Exports: A Review of the Development Issues by Paul Brenton, Gareth Edwards-Jones and Michael Friis Jensen
Vulnerability of exporting nations to the development of a carbon label in the United Kingdom
by G. Edwards-Jones, K. Plassmann, E.H. York, B. Hounsome,D.L. Jones, L. Mila i Canals
European Organic Standard Setting Organisations and Climate-Change Standards by Peter Gibbon, Danish Institute for International Studies (pdf)
Japan's Carbon Footprint System by Takako Ikezuki, International Trade Centre (ITC) (pdf)
Facilitating trade in selected climate change mitigation technologies inthe energy supply, buildings, and industry sectors by Ronald Steenblik and Joy Aeree Kim, OECD (pdf)
Building Bridges for Climate Change Mitigation. A Roadmap of Global Trade Patterns in Wind Power Goods and Services by Jim Hight, Project Manager, Environmental Business International (pdf)
Facilitating Trade in Selected Climate-Change-Mitigation Technologies in the Electricity Generation and Heavy-Industry Sectors by Ronald Steenblik and Takenori Matsuoka of the OECD Secretariat and Jim Hight of Environmental Business International (pdf)
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